Letters : . . .

From
Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University

Stanford, California

Pearce wrote that I and other environmental scientists were in the habit of
blaming the poor for environmental problems and implied that I was a racist to
boot. I and my coauthors have been taking exactly the opposite viewpoint for
over a quarter of a century in many dozens of books and articles of which Pearce
must be aware.

For instance, in 1971 John Holdren and I wrote: “Because of this consumption,
and because of the enormous negative impact on the global environment
accompanying it, the population growth in these [overdeveloped] countries must
be regarded as the most …